- Vaccination, act for extending, [268];
- Vagabonds, act for the punishment of, [22];
- and beggars to be kept separate in bridewells from the children, [46].
- Vagrancy, recommendation for an amendment of the laws relating to, [100];
- clauses in the Poor Law Bill of 1837, postponement of, [195].
- Vagrants and vagabonds, to be sent to houses of industry and kept to hard labour, [55];
- recommendation of their being sent as free labourers to some British colony, and no longer to be punishable by transportation, [143].
- Valuation of lands and houses recommended by the Commissioners of Inquiry, [141].
- Valuations, new, to be made where necessary, [228];
- Valuators, enactment appointing, [291].
- Victoria, Queen, subscription of for the relief of the poor in Ireland, [357].
- Visiting committee of Dublin work-houses directed to report on their state, [261].
- Voght, Baron de, attempt of to make pauper establishments self-supporting, [198].
- Voluntary charity, institutions supported by, [105].
- —— associations for the relief of the poor, recommended by the Commissioners of Inquiry, [145];
- rules to be framed for, [146].
- —— system of relief, reasons against recommending by some of the Commissioners of Inquiry, [147];
- reasons for, [149].
- Votes, scale of according to property, in the election for guardians, [179], [229].
- —— doubtful, for guardians, may be refused by the returning officer, [293].
- Voting papers for guardians, improper interference with, [266];
- penalty for destroying or defacing, [293].
- Wages, act for the regulation of, [21];
- Wanderers, idle, act against, [34].
- Wardens, enactment for the appointment of in townlands and parishes, [226].
- Wards in workhouses appropriated to pauper lunatics, [286].
- ——, towns with 10,000 inhabitants may be divided into, for the purpose of electing guardians, [233].
- Wars, private, not to be made without consent of the governor, [18].
- Waste lands in Ireland, quantities of, [89].
- Waterford, resistance to the payment of rates in, [235].
- Wealth and distress may be concurrent in a country, [97].
- Wellington, duke of, support given by to Irish Poor Law bill, [219], [220].
- West of Ireland, portion taken by the author in his First Report, [159];
- severe distress in during 1839, [256];
- amount of government relief to, [ibid. note].
- Western unions, total destitution of in 1849, [358].
- Wexford, stormed by Cromwell, [10].
- Wheat, average price of in Mark Lane in November 1853, 1854, and 1855, [17, note].
- Whipping, a punishment for begging without a licence, [53].
- Widows, helpless, mendicity-houses and almshouses recommended for, [145];
- enactment making them chargeable with the support of their children, [227].
- Wild herbs, used as sustenance by the distressed poor, [132].
- Wilkinson, Mr., engaged as architect for the Irish workhouses, [243 note].
- William the Conqueror, design of for bringing Ireland under subjection, [3].
- William the Third opposed by the Roman Catholics of Ireland, [10].
- William IV., death of, [195].
- Witnesses, Commissioners empowered to summon, [334].
- Wool, act against the pulling from living sheep, [32].
- Work to be provided for the destitute poor in workhouses, [225].
- Workhouse, act for erecting one in Dublin in 1703, [35];
- —— relief, advantages and disadvantages, as regards Ireland, [134];
- not recommended by the Commissioners of Inquiry, [135].
- Workhouse system recommended for Ireland by G. C. Lewis, [152].
- —— masters in London, testimony of as to the characters and habits of Irish poor, [158].
- —— system of England, doubts whether practicable in Ireland, [169];
- —— officers, estimated expenses of salaries for, [209];
- —— expenditure in the years 1842 to 1846, [323];
- —— accommodation, extreme pressure upon, occasioned by the potato disease, [324];
- —— hospitals, insufficiency of during the prevalence of the potato disease, [325].
- —— mortality, greatly increased ratio of during the distress of 1846-7, [326].
- Workhouses to be provided in each county, [53];
- recommendation that houses of industry should be made available for, [186];
- estimated expenses of constructing, [209];
- architect engaged to erect, [243];
- number of provided in 1840, [245];
- in 1841, [260];
- number of in operation in 1842, [271];
- cost of up to 1842, [273];
- sanitary state of, [275];
- number in operation in 1843, [282];
- inspection of by the author in 1842, [284];
- amount of government loans for the erection of in 1845, [302].
- Works, useful, recommended as a means of employing the distressed poor in Ireland, [100].
- Young, Arthur, his account of the state of Ireland in 1776-78, [59] et seq.
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Footnotes
[1]. See the ‘Liber Munerum publicorum Hibernie,’ the first and following chapters on the Establishments of Ireland, supplementary to the History of England, by Rowley Lascelles, of the Middle Temple, printed by authority in 1824. This work has been chiefly relied upon for historical reference. It bears evidence of great research, and is on every account entitled to much weight in the conflicting testimonies with regard to the early events of Irish history.
[2]. See ‘The Handbook of Architecture,’ a recent publication in which the ingenious author supports this conclusion by showing the similarity of the religious buildings erected in the East and in Ireland, which in both differ materially from what is seen in Italy and the other countries of Europe.
[3]. In ten years Ireland is said to have cost Elizabeth the immense sum of 3,400,000l. See ‘History of the English Poor Law,’ vol. i. p. 205.